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New Lantern AI alternative for radiology groups that want to keep their PACS
The short answer
New Lantern is a San Francisco company, founded in 2021, whose cloud platform replaces the PACS viewer, worklist and dictation system with one workspace, and whose AI, called Curie, pre-drafts much of the report. Choosing it is a platform decision, because you migrate off the PACS you run today. Radiological.ai is the lighter alternative: it keeps your PACS and adds an assistant over standard DICOM that flags suspected findings, prioritizes the worklist and drafts the structured report, on published plans of $399 per radiologist a month or $199 billed annually, and $598 a month or $299 billed annually for groups. The radiologist reviews, edits and signs every study.
New Lantern is one of the more interesting companies to come into radiology software in the last few years. It was founded in 2021 by Shiva Suri, a software engineer who watched his radiologist mother work from home during the pandemic and lose hours switching between five different PACS platforms. Benchmark led its 19 million dollar Series A in November 2024. The product answers exactly that complaint: one cloud workspace holding the worklist, a browser viewer and an AI reporter called Curie, which the company says pre-drafts up to 75 percent of the report before the radiologist starts dictating. Mammography and PET/CT viewers have since been added, and the company names Radiology Associates of Corpus Christi and Southern Radiology Ventures as customers.
The catch is the same one that comes with any whole-stack product. New Lantern describes itself as a PACS replacement, not an overlay, so adopting it means migrating priors, reconciling the archive, retraining every radiologist on a new viewer and running the group on a system that is new on the day it goes live. For a group that already wants out of its PACS, that is the point. For a group that likes its PACS and wants the AI help, it is a very large project bought to get a feature.
Radiological.ai is built for the second group. It connects to the PACS you already run over standard DICOM and adds the assistant: it flags suspected findings for your review, pushes suspected time-critical studies to the top of the worklist and drafts the structured report into your own template before you sit down. Nothing about your viewer, archive or priors changes. It is decision support, and you review, edit and sign every study.
Worklist
Structured report
DraftRun the assistant to draft this report for review.
Decision support. The radiologist reviews and signs every study.
Decision support for qualified clinicians. Radiological.ai does not provide a diagnosis and is not a substitute for professional judgment.
Flag · prioritize · draft · you review and sign
New Lantern replaces your PACS, worklist and dictation with one AI-native cloud platform; Radiological.ai adds flagging, triage and report drafting to the PACS you already own, so the AI arrives without a migration.
Side by side
New Lantern vs Sirona Medical, side by side
The two cloud platforms that come up when a group is asked to replace PACS, viewer and reporter together. Neither column is the sales column; both are compiled the same way.
| What changes | New Lantern | Sirona Medical |
|---|---|---|
| What you are buying | A cloud workspace that replaces the PACS viewer, worklist and dictation system, with the Curie AI drafting the report inside it. | RadOS, sold to groups as Sirona Unify: a cloud radiology operating system unifying viewer, archive, worklist and reporter on one data model. |
| AI in the report | Curie pre-drafts up to 75 percent of the report by the vendor account, completes free-dictated findings into sentences and generates guideline-based impressions. | A native reporter inside the platform, with the unified data model designed so AI can work across viewer, worklist and report. |
| FDA record in openFDA | No 510(k) records. Registration and listing shows New Lantern Platform and Curie under product code LMD, 21 CFR 892.2020, Class I and exempt from 510(k), listed February 9, 2024. | K251030, Sirona Advanced Imaging Suite, cleared October 22, 2025 under product code LLZ, 21 CFR 892.2050, Class II. |
| What that code covers | 892.2020 covers image transfer plus simple review tools such as window and level, zoom, pan and user-drawn measurements. It excludes advanced image processing and complex quantitative functions. | 892.2050 covers review and processing for interpretation, including segmentation, multimodality registration, 3D visualization and semi-automated measurements. |
| Specialty viewers | Mammography and PET/CT viewers added to the platform, with sub-second image loading claimed. | Diagnostic viewer delivered in the browser as part of the unified platform. |
| Named customers | Radiology Associates of Corpus Christi and Southern Radiology Ventures. | A multi-year partnership with Everlight Radiology. |
| Migration scope | Full PACS replacement: priors, archive, worklist rules and reporting templates all move. | Full stack replacement on the same scale: PACS, RIS-facing worklist and reporter all move. |
| Published pricing | No list price found on the vendor site. Quoted per group. | No list price found on the vendor site. Quoted per group. |
| Best suited for | A group that wants out of its current PACS and would rather buy the viewer and the AI drafting from one young vendor. | A larger group or teleradiology operator consolidating a patchwork stack onto one platform with a cleared imaging suite. |
Compiled from each vendor site, trade press coverage and the openFDA 510(k), registration and listing, and classification endpoints. The FDA rows are public records you can reproduce yourself; the product rows are vendor descriptions. Confirm current modules and contract terms with each vendor before a shortlist depends on this table.
The FDA record
Where radiology software sits in the FDA database
Every product code a PACS, viewer or imaging AI vendor is likely to list or clear under, with the regulation behind it and how many companies are on record. Use it to check any vendor on your shortlist, including us.
| FDA product code | Regulation | Class | 510(k) required | Registered listings | 510(k) records |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LMD: digital image communications, radiological | 21 CFR 892.2020 | I | No, exempt | 152 | 142 |
| LLZ: image processing system, radiological | 21 CFR 892.2050 | II | Yes | 2,001 | 2,287 |
| QIH: automated radiological image processing software | 21 CFR 892.2050 | II | Yes | 625 | 326 |
| QAS: computer-assisted triage and notification | 21 CFR 892.2080 | II | Yes | 69 | 87 |
| QFM: computer-assisted prioritization for lesions | 21 CFR 892.2080 | II | Yes | 35 | 41 |
| QBS: computer-assisted detection for fracture | 21 CFR 892.2090 | II | Yes | 11 | 11 |
Counts from the openFDA registration and listing and 510(k) endpoints; regulation, class and exemption from the openFDA classification endpoint and the eCFR text of 21 CFR part 892. A registration listing is a company telling FDA it makes a device of that type. A 510(k) record is an FDA decision. LMD still shows historical 510(k) records because its exemption is subject to the limits in 21 CFR 892.9.
Side by side
Radiological.ai vs New Lantern, honestly
A fair look at what each does well. Both are capable tools. Here is where they differ.
| What matters | Radiological.ai | New Lantern |
|---|---|---|
| What you are buying | An assistant added to the PACS you already run, over standard DICOM | A cloud platform that replaces the PACS viewer, worklist and dictation system |
| Migration scope | No archive migration, no new viewer, no change to how priors load | Priors, archive, worklist rules and templates move to the new platform |
| Report drafting | Drafts the structured report into your template for you to edit and sign | Curie pre-drafts the report and completes free-dictated findings, a genuine strength |
| Finding flags and worklist triage | Flags suspected findings and moves suspected time-critical studies up your queue | Intelligent worklist inside the platform; drafting is the headline AI job |
| Viewer | Your existing diagnostic viewer, unchanged | Its own browser viewer with 3D, mammography and PET/CT support |
| Pricing transparency | Published per radiologist: $399 a month or $199 billed annually, and $598 a month or $299 billed annually for groups | No public list price; quoted per group |
| Regulatory status | Decision support; we make no regulatory-status claims on this site | Registered and listed under LMD, Class I and 510(k) exempt; no 510(k) on record |
Comparison reflects general, publicly understood positioning. Capabilities change, so check each product for the latest.
The closest comparison to this one is our Sirona Medical alternative page, because Sirona and New Lantern are the two cloud platforms groups get pitched when the proposal is to replace PACS, viewer and reporter in one move. If you are genuinely shopping for a new archive and viewer, cloud based PACS separates the four different things sold under that name, and PACS software sorts vendors by study volume.
If the PACS is fine and the goal is the AI, the relevant pages are radiology AI PACS integration, which covers what arrives in your existing viewer and RIS over DICOM and HL7, and the radiology report generator, which covers how a draft shows up populated rather than blank. Groups replacing a dictation system rather than a PACS usually start at radiology dictation software or the best radiology reporting software compared.
Whichever way you lean, read the FDA table above against every vendor on the list, us included. Our FDA approved radiology AI page shows how to look up any K number in about a minute, and the questions worth asking a radiology AI vendor covers the rest of the diligence, from shadow periods to what the renewal looks like in year three.
Why groups pick Radiological.ai
One assistant across the whole read
The AI without the PACS project
Most of what makes New Lantern attractive to a radiologist is the drafted report and a worklist that thinks. You can get flagging, triage and a drafted report on the PACS you already run, which is an integration measured in weeks rather than a migration measured in quarters.
Your priors stay where they are
The expensive, risky part of any PACS replacement is the archive: years of priors that have to move, reconcile and load fast on day one. Leaving the archive alone removes the single biggest source of go-live pain, and it keeps a comparison study one click away the way your radiologists expect.
Decision support, you always sign
Every flag is a prompt to look, every priority is a suggestion about reading order, and every report is a draft. The responsible radiologist reviews, edits and signs each study. That holds whether the assistant sits on your PACS or inside a new platform, and it is where clinical judgment belongs.
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New Lantern vs Radiological.ai, answered
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See how Radiological.ai reads alongside your group
One assistant that flags suspected findings, prioritizes the worklist, and drafts the structured report on X-ray, CT and MRI. You review and sign every study.
Decision support for qualified clinicians. Radiological.ai does not provide a diagnosis and is not a substitute for professional medical judgment.